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It’s Never Too Late for a Happy Life
Last night I attended a talk on ‘Understanding Genetics’ by Kat Arney and Oliver James. Despite the excellent presentations, I suspect the majority of the audience left only with the understanding that genes are very, very complex. And almost certainly beyond their grasp. I was actually more interested in listening to Oliver James, a psychologist Read more
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Where is Anxiety Created?
Today on Facebook a friend posted a tip on what to do if you experience an anxiety attack: look around, find things you can see, hear, touch etc. The tip called it, ‘grounding’. A commenter noted, ‘This is called mindfulness’. Without detracting from the usefulness of the advice, my thought was that this tip also Read more
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Accessing The Answers Within You
Some form of ‘All the answers are within you,’ was a mantra I had often heard over my many years of searching. Yet I had no idea how to access those answers. It seemed like many people had a much better handle on life than I did. Then one day, in a very ordinary, concrete Read more
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Rethinking Addiction
I come from an extended family that has been inflicted with a broad selection of destructive habits or addictions. Within the wider family there have been issues with alcoholism, drug use, smoking, overeating and porn to name but a few. Some of the outcomes have been anything but happy. Suicide, attempted suicide, road accidents, early Read more
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Being Less Toxic
Recently a dear friend paid me a lovely compliment. It was along the lines of, ‘You are so lacking in bitterness.’ We had been talking about the struggles, ‘injustices’ and loneliness I had experienced as a single parent in the early years post separation. I observed that, because I didn’t know then what I know Read more
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The Bearable Lightness of Being
Each of us has a natural lightness of being which is sufficiently buoyant to balance the things which come our way. What can tip our experience into unbearable is our own Thinking about these events. Sometimes consciously, but more often innocently, unconsciously and automatically, we entertain habits of thinking which turn our experience of events Read more
Christian McNeill 